Woman&#39;s undergarment



1,643,568 Sept 27 1927' H. l.. REDMOND WOMAN S UNDERGARMENT Filed April 20. 1925 El "firmas www;

resented Sept. 27, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARBIET LYONS REDMOND, 0F NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 THE 'WIL- -LIA`M CARTER COMPANY, 0F NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION' OF MASSACHUSETTS.

WOMANS UNDEBGABMENT.

Application led April 20, 1925. Serial No. 24,313.

My invention aimsto provide a novel and improved construction for womens undergarments of the divided type, including particularly the so-called bloomerform of such undergarments.

v In the drawings illustrating a garment embodying one'form of my invention: Fig. 41 is a front elevation of said garment; .i

Figs'. 2 and 3are views of the two main garment sections before beingmade up; and

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on substantially the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

. The garment illustrated as a whole in Fig. 1 comprises a body or trunk portion 1 and the leg portions 2. 3, 'a suitable elastic supporting member or belt 4: being) provided at the waist of the garment. the'leg portions are formed at their lower extremities with suitable cuffs 5, 6 herein illustrated as double. but which may be of any desired form. While any suitable fabric material may be employed in forming the garment I preferably employ a knittedl fabric. the wales 7 of which extend longitudinally of the garment from topv to bottom, whereby the garment is rendered relatively highly expansible transversely, the direction of en'pansibilityr of said fabric being at right angles to the direction of the wales.

In the present instance the garment is formedv oftwo main opposed and complementary garment sections A, B which are shown in fia-t condition in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively.' Referring to said figures, each main section A or B is substantially rectangular in form but with that portion of their upper extremities atthe rear of the garment upwardly extended as indicated at 8 and 9 respectively. In 'this manner additional length is aiforded at the rear of the garment, providing' 'ample fullness in the seat.

i Each main 'section A and B comprises an upper or body portion-10 or 11 and a lowerv or leg-'portion 12 or '13 respectively. At

eachside of each of said sections A and B thereis provided an arcuate cut-out formation.l partly in the-body portion and partly in the leg portion ofthe respective garment section. The curved 'edges 'of said cut-out formations are indicated by the numerals 14 referablyAv .viewed in Fig. 1L To attain this end I preferably avoid any seam or seams extending across the crotch from side to side which tend to reduce expansibility or elasticity in that direction. Said means herein comprises an insert formed of two 'similar crescentshaped sections, gussets or pieces 18, 19 that is, two sided or substantially so and convexoconcave, the concave edge having a smaller or larger radius 'relative to that of the outer edge as desired, varying said edge from a very distinct curve to as close approach to a straight line as desired, and in the .latter case making the crescent-like piece approach the segmental. each such piece, section or gusset being formed of one or more thicknesses', preferably two, of knitted fabric similar to that of the remainder of the garment.

Said crescents are so cut and formed'that the knitting wales 20 thereof extend longitudinally of the crescents in a direction substantially parallel to a straight line drawn between their opposite points or ends. In this manner thedirection of elasticity or expansibility of these crescent-shap gusset 'pieces is in a direction transversely thereof.

broughttogether and seamed along the vertical median line at the front of the garment as seen at 22 in said figure.

One of the crescent-shaped gusset pieces, as 18, isseamed along one half of its convex or outer edge at one of the curved portions of one garment section, as A, substantially in the position seen in Fig. 2 while the other crescent piece 19 is similarly but oppositely seamed to the other section, B. The other and lower half. 23 of the outer edge of the piece 18, as viewed in Fig. 2, is seamed along the curved edge 14 at the opwhile the lower half 24 of the convex edge of the other crescent 19 is similarly secured along the curved portion 17 of the other section, B

The gusset pieces themselves are seamed together along their inner or concave edges and 26 respectively, forming the seam 1ndicated at 27 in Fig. 1, extending centr'fllly through the crotch from front to rear. opposite side edges of each leg-portion 12, 13 arerespectively seemed together along the lines 28. 29, -Fig. 1, said lines or seams extending along the inside of the leg p0r.

tion, as clearly seen also in Fig. 4. It will be understood that the above operations may l a v v y #ln aA womans undergarment of the be performed in any convenient order.

From a comparison of the various figures it will be observed that the seam 27 which appears as substantiallya straight line' in Fig. 1 is in fact the inner curve of the two crescent shaped pieces which extend longitudinally from iront to rear of the garment,

in a manner clearly apparent from an observation .of Fig. 4. It will now be understood that lthe gusset formed in the' manner y above described is highly expansible or elastic in a direction transversely of the` garment, while the gusset pieces themselves eX- tend from front'to rear thereof so as to avoid cross crotch seeming, said expansibility resulting principally from such avoidance ofseams across the crotch and from the particular manner above described in which the lines of wales in the crotch pieces are related thereto and to the body of the garment.

It will also be a parent, particularly from an inspection of 1g. 4, that the described construction, in addition to the above-mentioned elasticity'tr'ansversely of the garment at the front and rear in the crotch regi0n,l

additionally a'ords elasticity vertically of the garment in and through the crotch, crosswise the gussets, thus also relieving vertical strains in that locality. This is due primarily to the disclosed construction and arrangement of knitted gussets having their. knitting wales extending len hwise of the u'ssets and their maximum e astieity thereore transverse of the gussets, while the gussets themselves are arranged to extend longitudinally through the crotch 'from front to rear-. My invention is not llimited to the scribed herein.

Claim v b loomer type having a body and leg portions, afcrotch formation comprising two crescent-s`naped gussets of one or more thicknesses of knitted `fabric`having the knitting wales extending longitudinally ofsaid gus- -sets,'substantially parallel to a line connects specific embodiment thereof shown and deand transversely of the gusset, in the direci tion of its least dimension, said gussets be-A ing seamed together along their concave edges and positioned in the garment crotchv with said edges and seam extending through the crotch from front to rear, whereby latis aorded theg'arment eral expansibilit over arcas of su stantial vertical extent at the front and the rear in tbe region of the crotch and also vertical expansibilityis rovided in and through the garment crotc In testimony whereof, have signed my" name to this s' eciication.

HARRI T LYONS REDMOND. 

